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Mogadishu — More than 10 injured Somalis, most of them government soldiers have been flown to Turkey today, just as their situation was very critical condition, officials told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.

Reports say that the numbers of wounds were 11 including a young Somali teenager who was suffering a stray bullet that hit him as he was in Mogadishu and were all taken to Turkey to be medicated there.

Professor Abdirahman Haji Aden ( Ibbi ), a deputy PM of the transitional government told reporters in the airport before they were taken saying that they got medical contribution from the Turkish government about the wounded people in the capital adding that those injuries would be treated in Turkey.

"The person who is required to be helped should be a person who service for the nation, to be a government soldier or to be a person who is very weak as the children who could not be cured their injuries in the country," said Professor Ibbi.

Mohamed Adan Igale, one of the injured soldiers taken told Shabelle radio more about his injuries, where and when he was wounded in the capital.

"I was part of the government soldiers who were fighting at Shibis district in Mogadishu; the bullet hit me on the rectum side. I was sleeping at the Ugandan hospital for a long time. My injury could be treated in the hospital actually," said Mohamed Igale.

It is not the first time that the government receives medical contribution of treating injuries of soldiers and other people from the world.